TEKWITCH (makes useful trouble)
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Bander
Sometimes you want several pieces of media alive at once—not buried in an editing timeline before you can see what they do together.
Bander is a TEKWITCH Toy for watching, arranging, and performing several pieces of local media at once. Start by dropping in video or MP3s; it can stay a three-video viewer, or become an instrument for loops, crops, audio mixes, music-aware movement, and export.
Your media stays on your device.
- WORKS WITH:
- Desktop Chromium-family browsers; some mobile Chromium browsers also work, but orchestration support varies by browser and device.
- START HERE:
- run Bander and add your local media.
- FIRST RUN:
- browser-only; your media stays on your device.
- OUTPUT:
- playable local-media arrangement with browser-native export.
- LICENSING TERMS:
- Bander project licensing applies, including its no-charge independent-creator commercial permission. Use rights depend on the applicable Bander release; no paid software license is required.
Workbench Wednesday
Not every problem wants software. Some ideas need to be cut, bent, glued, painted, strapped on, and tested on a body.
Workbench Wednesday is where that physical-making branch happens in public: masks first, with headdresses, wearables, rebuilds, and other bench experiments joining as they are actually made.
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Device Baseline Collector
A computer gets hard to reason about when the facts that matter are scattered across settings, firmware screens, labels, utilities, and memory.
The DBC is a small read-only PowerShell instrument that gathers a bounded hardware and operating-system baseline into one transferable report package. It installs nothing, changes no configuration or firmware, and deliberately avoids passwords, product keys, and BitLocker recovery keys.
- WORKS WITH:
- Windows computers with Windows PowerShell.
- START HERE:
- download the file, open Windows PowerShell, paste in the file’s contents, and press Enter.
- FIRST RUN:
- read-only collection; changes no system or firmware settings.
- OUTPUT:
- one transferable device-baseline ZIP.
- BOUNDARIES:
- Read-only collection; changes no system or firmware settings.
- LICENSING TERMS:
- No-charge personal and commercial use for individuals and organizations, including paid client work and commercial outputs, across covered releases. Redistribution, embedding and customer-facing hosting need separate permission.
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Parallax
Move the frame. Keep the facts.
Parallax is a reusable way to test whether an answer changes when the frame moves, without throwing away what is already known.
- WORKS WITH:
- LLM chat that can read the Markdown Toy and use the current conversation context.
- START HERE:
- attach the file and ask your AI “What is this?”
- FIRST RUN:
- works from the current context; advisory by default.
- OUTPUT:
- reframed analysis plus concrete implications.
- BOUNDARIES:
- Advisory by default; changes the frame without discarding established context.
- LICENSING TERMS:
- No-charge personal and commercial use for individuals and organizations, including paid client work and commercial outputs, across covered releases. Redistribution, embedding and customer-facing hosting need separate permission.
Wayhand
AI can feel like something you possess while nearly every consequential part of it remains somewhere else—its model, continuity, permissions, memory, tools, and even the rules governing what it may do.
Wayhand asks what an AI system looks like when possession, authority, consent, and recovery are properties of the system rather than promises made around it.
Map the dependencies behind this working relationship—model, instructions, memory, tools, data, permissions, and action channels. For each, say whether I can obtain, inspect, verify, copy, run, modify, or revoke it independently of the provider. Separate verified facts, provider-controlled dependencies, and unknowns. Then tell me who ultimately sets your authority to act for me, which limits I can enforce myself, and what I would need to preserve to reconstruct the relationship under my own control.